barbarity

bar·bar·i·ty

noun \bär-ˈber-ə-tē, -ˈba-rə-\

plural bar·bar·i·ties

Definition of BARBARITY

1

: barbarism

2

a : barbarous cruelty : inhumanity b : an act or instance of such cruelty

Examples of BARBARITY

1. The barbarity of the attack was horrifying.
2. The photos vividly capture the war's barbarity.
3. He is accused of inflicting unimaginable barbarities on his own people.

First Known Use of BARBARITY

circa 1570

Related to BARBARITY

Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, cruelty, barbarousness, brutality, cruelness, fiendishness, heartlessness, inhumanity, inhumanness, sadism, savageness, savagery, truculence, viciousness, wantonness

Antonyms: benignity, compassion, good-heartedness, humaneness, humanity, kindheartedness, kindness, sympathy, tenderheartedness

Related Words: hard-heartedness, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, unfeelingness; fellness, ferociousness, ferocity, fierceness, grimness; bloodlust, bloodthirstiness, murderousness, sanguineness, sanguinity; cattiness, despitefulness, hatefulness, malevolence, maliciousness, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spitefulness; hardhandedness, harshness, heavy-handedness, oppressiveness

Near Antonyms: tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness, warmth; charitableness, clemency, leniency, mercifulness, mercy, pity

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Rhymes with BARBARITY

unclarity, vulgarity